Hadley v. Rash’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1972 · most notably Maier v. Brock (1909), Turner v. Williams (1909)
23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cartwright v. McGown · Johnson v. Johnson · Teter v. Teter · Carroll v. Carroll · Klein v. Laudman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a marriage, therefore, has once been shown, however celebrated, whether regularly or irregularly, •or however proved, whether directly or by circumstantial evidence, the law raises a strong presumption in favor of its legality; so that the burden is with the party objecting, throughout, and in every particular, to prove, against the constant pressure of this pre- . sumption of law, that it is illegal and void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepard v. Carter
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.